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Since 2004, the city of Troy has used a picture of a row of houses on its website and official letterhead.

It’s a nice image, but it isn’t Troy.

As Chris Churchill reports, the images are actually from a neighborhood in Boston. Tutunjian, who is quoted in the article, immediately responded by replacing the image with houses from Troy and noted his shock and embarrassment at the gaffe, which it is indicated predates his administration.

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I read Mr. Churchill’s story, and while I typically admire his reporting, I truly thought this was one of the absolute dumbest non-story fake controversies of all time. I mean, seriously? (Yes, I got he was probably just working the story that was assigned to him, so this commebt is as much for his editors as anyone else.) I’m not sure what’s more embarrassing, really, the TU running the story or Mayor Tutunjian taking such swift action. There are real significant social and political issues in Troy that need addressing. Can we focus on those, perhaps? Jesum Crow!

The Mayor does have more important things to do, such as demolish the only 35 year old multi million dollar city hall building and demolish the adjacent park to make new for a new park. The term sell off the City assets has never seen such a textbook example, usually the dems are leading the charge though, must be some big bux along the money trail.

At least the city web site has some mention of the movies filmed in Troy. They say “Our architecture is in high demand by Hollywood for movies set in the nineteenth century, with movies such as “The Age of Innocence” and “Time Machine” having been filmed here. “Ironweed” and “Scent of a Women” were also filmed here.”

The Time Machine by Dreamworks was filmed for two nights in February, 2001. A notice was posted which asked residents with windows facing 2nd Street and Broadway to contact the ‘location manager’ to have them put up late 1800’s style drapes. The request is for the three blocks from Broadway to Congress Street. We were there on the set to see the storefronts and carriages along second to take pictures of the decorated storefronts that were featured in the movie. What Victorian magestry, where were the city elitists on that Sunday morning?

The BID should not have ANY paid employees and should be made up of city residents. It should begin with the most basic things such as police foot patrols, clean streets and clean boardups in the downtown.

Lets put this to rest, it is probably a typical example of some webmaster consulting firm from Boston that had never been to Troy putting the picture there. Let the Victorian Costume crew get some pictures of Troy on the web site.